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deerskin

[ US /ˈdɪɹˌskɪn/ ]
[ UK /dˈi‍əskɪn/ ]
NOUN
  1. leather from the hide of a deer

How To Use deerskin In A Sentence

  • Women wore short, thick kilts of shredded tulles or skirts of deerskin.
  • Xaviers could fit himself to the dignity and formal habiliments of state; Yet in the fringed deerskin of frontier garb, he was fleeter on the warpath than the Indians who fled before him; and he could outride and outshoot -- and, it is said, outswear -- the best and the worst of the men who followed him. Pioneers of the Old Southwest: a chronicle of the dark and bloody ground
  • More recent Indian medicine men carried charms, fetishes and sacred talismans in similar deerskin bags that must have been a potent symbol of tribal authority.
  • During warm months the Ojibwa slept on cedar bough mattresses, each person wrapped in a bearskin or deerskin robe.
  • One could almost believe that at any moment Scott and his men would come shuffling in, hang up their deerskin coats and start boiling a brew.
  • The Canadian Oxford Dictionary also lists garbage mitt—a new one on me—that is supposedly a heavily padded deerskin mitten favoured by garbage men.
  • He was wearing deerskin clothes that looked pretty grimy and he didn't smell pretty with the grease and whisky and dead animal stinks coming off him.
  • During warm months the Ojibwa slept on cedar bough mattresses, each person wrapped in a bearskin or deerskin robe.
  • For ceremonies, the men wore a deerskin shirt decorated with paint, feathers, porcupine-quills and scalps.
  • Like Malachi, Roxane was now wearing the style of clothing worn by the Tribe - in her case, a short deerskin dress with slits for armholes and leather moccasins on her feet.
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